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That's kind of odd considering the Riders sold around 25k season tickets that year that so many bomber fans were there isn't it? You guys can laugh at how bad we are all you want but even this year there are 26700 season tickets sold so the myth that any team will ever outnumber our fans in our stadium is simply that, That's kind of odd considering the Riders sold around 25k season tickets that year that so many bomber fans were there isn't it? You guys can laugh at how bad we are all you want but even this year there are 26700 season tickets sold so the myth that any team will ever outnumber our fans in our stadium is simply that, Frigging Migs. You're a joke,man. You have no life. Ripper is not Migs. I'm pretty sure, because he's not banned from riderfans and Migs has made other alternate accounts that have. Gotta be really careful though, Ripper. Pro-Rider comments don't get good reception here. Your pretty sure, LOL, we that makes me feel better. For anyone interested, I've posted under same name at riderfans for since 2006. Also Migs m.o. is to defend the rider management at all costs. For those of you that post over at Riderfans, you'll know I'm more the critic than the koolaid drinker. Ripper, I find both your commentaries and inputs to the forum to be respectful. You are in enemy territory and conduct yourself well. The difference between you and Migs is night and day. I can appreciate that you will defend your team and fan base, that is to be expected. Just as Trapper and Jayrock have become great contributors to the other Bomber forum (gawd....I hope they don't read this), it is nice to get other fan bases involved in the mix at our forums. I read your commentary often at Riderfans and know you are no Rider shill. Just a passionate Rider fan. Nothing wrong with that. Not my favorite team....but some people like bologna better than Filet Mignon. Whose to say they are wrong.

Why not let Greaves and Neufeld duel for the starting spot and then see what you can get for the loser? Sure, let Greaves and Neufeld duel for the starting spot, or Chungh and Neufeld for that matter, but trading anyone to free up a spot for Neufeld would be monumentally stupid. Neufeld will be back on the shelf within a couple of games.

So this week we're just taking the word of the coach and players and doctors about which players are injured? Just accepting their version of "the truth"? Adams was dead on the field. Dead. Doug Brown saw it. He sits further away from the field than I do, but he knows what happened. If you don't believe they used a defibrillator on Adams to bring him back from the dead, Doug Brown has a bridge to sell you. The only reason they haven't said he was dead is because he was. His eyes were open, just like a dead person. He got hit in the chest. That's where the heart is. You can't get hit in the heart and not be dead. It's like none of you care about the players. If the coach allows Stoudamire to ever play football again, he's a monster. You all are a bunch of monsters. I didn't think he was dead until I saw it on TV. I have seen enough movies to be qualified to assess a dead man when I see one. There are hundreds, maybe even thousands, of doctors who will tell you that once you are dead you shouldn't play football anymore. When Paul Friesen writes this article about it later this week there will be a lot of todasos being handed out around here. I just can't believe that the training staff would ever allow a dead man to play again. His eyes were open....open for god's sakes and he was laying down. If that ain't dead, I don't know what dead is.

This is why I assumed that they used the exemption for Stoudermire. I would assume he makes more in 3 games than Neufeld would have for one.

I could be wrong but i think you can pull as many people as you want off of the 6-game. But there's a limit to how many you can do before having to pay their salary for the time they're off? You have to pay their salary no matter what. You are allowed to take one player off the 6 game early without the previous games while on the 6 game counting against the cap. Stoudermire would likely be our first half exemption if he is back this week and Collins (on a rookie contract) we would likely activate, if healthy, and just eat his cap hit for the last 3 games. No matter what though, they are paid their salary in full while on the 6 game.

At this point, I am not really worried about the in-game scoreboard situation. At a just over 50% rate of conversion on the single point, the rate of conversion for 2 points conversions being roughly 40-50%, it may become a case of "we might as well just go for two" and have the same rate of success. Not sure why Lirim is having problems with these but I suspect it's a mental thing.

Our import scouting has been a little spotty to be sure. LBing, Receiving, DL, have all been areas of weakness for McManus. He has excelled at finding us KRs, DBs, etc. This is pretty normal. From scout to scout they are all going to have positions that they are better at finding players at then others, I think that Walters has done a nice job of recognizing and offsetting problem areas of recruitment through the use of FA. It would be nice if we could unearth a Chris Matthews every year but if we can't I like that our GM will go out and get a Nick Moore. This team still has some holes, and has potentially missed some opportunities to fill a couple of them....but I believe that Walters will sort them out during the season. Recruitment is only one phase of team building. That was Mack's down fall, and one I am not seeing with Walters so far.

Matt Dunigan is totally unlike the rest of us. He's got far more knowledge into the subject than anyone here...even you. And yet you all discount the doctor he has partnered with for ThinkFirst. Too funny. Believe what you want to believe. I don't discount what he's saying, but he's got three things working against him in my opinion. 1 - he's a defendant in Arland Bruce's lawsuit - no doubt he's going out of his way to speak up in favor of precaution at all costs while his case is ongoing 2 - he's one of the biggest proponents out there of ridding the world of contact sports altogether - agenda much? 3 - he's never met Drew Willy, let alone had a chance to diagnose him If I suffered a severe concussion, Charles Tator would be the man I would want wearing the white robe. No doubt about it. He is a brilliant physician. That does not, however, change the fact that he has some pretty extreme views when it comes to concussions and sport. He is a passionate man on the subject and sometimes lets his passion over ride his intelligence by making off the cuff remarks. At the end of the day though, he did exactly what he wanted to do...he turned the conversation into one about player safety after a head injury. His credibility takes some lumps when he makes an unwashed diagnosis, I think that is a trade off that he is obviously willing to make to advance his agenda.

Yes Matty's exactly like the rest of us. I know I enjoy spending the CFL offseason travelling around Canada lecturing in partnership with Charles Tator, my co-founder of ThinkFirst, which is a national concussion awareness group. Oh wait...that's not me that's Matty. I guess maybe his opinion on the matter should carry a little more weight than the average joe. Especially when it directly contradicts his own partner, Charles Tator. Matty may not be a doctor, but his work over the past several years with ThinkFIrst and his close partnership with Tator, has to be considered as making him as close to an expert as one can get without a medical degree. Unless, of course, TB...you have spent hundreds of hours lecturing on the subject yourself? Couple that with Dr. McDonald's expertise, the Bomber training staff, and a neurologist's assessment and I find it hard to believe that anyone could still cling to the belief that the Bombers are putting Willy under any extra amount of peril by playing this weekend.

Yes Matty's exactly like the rest of us. I know I enjoy spending the CFL offseason travelling around Canada lecturing in partnership with Charles Tator, my co-founder of ThinkFirst, which is a national concussion awareness group. Oh wait...that's not me that's Matty. I guess maybe his opinion on the matter should carry a little more weight than the average joe. Especially when it directly contradicts his own partner, Charles Tator. Matty may not be a doctor, but his work over the past several years with ThinkFIrst and his close partnership with Tator, has to be considered as making him as close to an expert as one can get without a medical degree. Unless, of course, TB...you have spent hundreds of hours lecturing on the subject yourself?

But Dunigan isn't a doctor so his opinion to some here is moo.. He's not a doctor, but has been extremely outspoken concerning concussions and the way they are treated. I highly doubt that Dunigan would ever speak this positively about Willy's injury if he had even the slightest doubt about it. True, he isn't a doctor, but he certainly has a lot of knowledge and experience with the subject. I think that it's pretty safe to say that Willy is just fine. The fact that he wasn't diagnosed with a concussion is great news.

Of course, a player can be brought back too soon from injury. Doctor's don't always get it right 100% of the time. Doesn't make it a conspiracy, or that they rushed. A doctor goes with the information they have and make the best possible determination with that information. In Buck's case it may have been too early. In the vast majority they got it right.

Good to know, MacDonald is probably on contract and not an actual employee of the club. Whether on contract or an employee of the club is completely irrelevant. He has a little thing called a medical license and practice that he must protect in any eventuality. One would have to be wearing a tin-foil hat to think that a doctor of this stature would jeopardize his entire career for the sake of the pittance the Bombers are paying him to attend games.

I think it's a combination of rust, and opposing OLinemen not being worn out yet. DLs as whole across the league seem to be struggling to get to the QB right now. I think that many teams are using a very vanilla defensive scheme while they figure out the impact of the rule changes. Makes it easier on the OL. I suspect that will change. BTW, I need a magnifying glass to read your post.

For sure. Also, there is a nerve along the side of the neck that if impacted will cause temporary paralysis. Not saying that was the case, but it is a possibility. So much we don't know....most of it because none of us were, you know, actually involved in any way in the injury, diagnosis, or follow up care.

Having not read the article, I already know this single sentence isn't just an opinion but a fact, should be turned into a sticky and added to the front page of MBB, applies to 70% of all content from this writer, and the expense associated with adding this sentence to the covers all encyclopedias published since 1982 should be studied as the cost to society of reading this dullard's work is likely far greater, just in case someone ever looks at an encyclopedia again. 70%? Only 70%? That kind of optimism in his journalistic ability qualifies you for president of his fan club.

I find it monumentally difficult to believe that Willy would jeopardize his career, by hiding symptoms or misleading doctors, to start game 3 of the season. I find it even more difficult to believe that any of the parties involved would have him start Friday if even the tiniest symptoms of concussion existed and without all due diligence.

Lets hope that continues ( pace to 27 vs 71 ) however from a D perspective we are on pace for 9 sacks and I would think that would be worst in CFL history ... Sacks numbers are down league wide. I think the rule changes have allowed QBs to get rid of the ball a little quicker eliminating a lot of the coverage sacks. QBs are still getting hit though.

Good stuff. Every scout has areas where they are better at recruiting/assessing than others. It's part of the reason you have multiple scouts. Can't blame McManus for all the teams shortcomings in recruitment, he is only one of many. On top of that assessing talent is only half the battle. Getting them to come to Canada and sign a contract can be just as daunting a task as finding them. Who is to say that McManus hasn't turned up some gems at DE, or R only to have them walk away from the 45k a year we offered them.

You know.. Cuz he tested willy and did all the tests on him.. Smh. Guys getting his name out there by rocking the boat. Sure, you could argue the bombers and willy are pushing the limit but again, if he passed ALL baseline tests after hit and then days again later.. What's the issue here? Easy to say but you have to admit that both O'Shea and Willy have been less than forthright in this matter, describing the injury only as "upper body" and avoiding using the word "concussion" at all. Both Willy and O'Shea have said that he never lost consciousness and yet he lay motionless for at least 2 mins. and the photo clearly shows his eyes are closed. Willy was standing in the tunnel still in full gear within 20 minutes of being laid out so if they did go through the proper concussion protocol the results were already somewhat predetermined. In Willy's own words he was ready to return to the game for the 2nd half but the medical staff held him out. As the article explains the real danger for Willy is in the next game, were even a minor tackle could lead to more serious damage. It wasn't that many years ago that Buck Pierce returned to play in games in which he had been obviously concussed. So yes the CFL is taking steps in the right direction but those steps are still guarded by self-interest and the traditions of professional sports and not based on the best scientific evidence. Fans may cheer but it is Willy who has to ultimately pay the price. The photo proves nothing. He could have been mid-blink when it was taken for all we know. Everyone is concerned about the health and well-being of players. The divide is people who think the doctors who have actually examined a player know what they are doing and the other side are people who think they know more than those doctors. QFT

Wouldn't stand downwind of him after a burrito.

Our defence is playing a raw rookie. I know he had a great week last week, but I have to wonder if Calgary didn't underestimate him by a lot. If we can't handle the Montreal offence, we are in trouble this year. I predict we will.

But will she share those sweet potato fries? If so....she's a keeper.

For sure. If we are going to start him this week, the OL needs to step up and keep him extra clean all game.

Also, last game I think it was Dunigan who stated that Anderson may be the most powerful guy in the league and that he squats over 900 lbs.